Bringing Gifts Home
I Share My Travels and My Thanks Through Giving My illustration of gift boxes decked with bows represents the joy I have from sharing gifts. “ I am sure you have a grateful heart that could never receive kindness without wishing to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion. ” Jane Austen , " Mansfield Park" By Anna Krejci There are many ways to be kind, and some forms are very great – the genuinely selfless gestures. I love giving gifts as a form of showing consideration. I love it to return favors and to express appreciation for a relationship. When I travel, my thoughts still center on those who await me at home. I am content to find the smallest gifts in faraway places; I then return home to give them to my friends and family. The following “good finds” might be forever housed in my memory since purchasing treasures on a journey is so much fun, too. One September at the Yankee Peddler Festival near Canal Fulton,...